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so what happens when you snapshot an independent disk?
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so what happens when you snapshot an independent disk?

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nothing happens to the independent disks, if you have other disks they are snapshotted, along with the configuration (vmx) file and memory if you select that option for a running machine
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nothing happens to the independent disks, if you have other disks they are snapshotted, along with the configuration (vmx) file and memory if you select that option for a running machine

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What is the difference between an independent and non-independent disk?
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What is the difference between an independent and non-independent disk?

vmware - independent disks

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.